Figshare

What Figshare is

Figshare is a research repository website at figshare.com for sharing and discovering research outputs. It supports materials such as datasets, figures, posters, presentations, code, media, and other files that may not fit neatly into a traditional journal article.

Research outputs

Figshare's official description centers on making research outputs discoverable, citable, reportable, and transparent. That matters because research work often includes supporting data, methods, software, and supplementary materials that need stable access outside the main paper.

Citable sharing

A repository becomes more useful when shared files can be referenced reliably. Figshare helps researchers publish materials with metadata and citation-friendly records so others can find, reuse, credit, or audit research outputs more easily.

Institutions

Figshare's institutional pages describe repository support for universities and research organizations. Institutions use these systems to manage outputs from many researchers, support open research policies, track reporting needs, and make work visible through a shared repository.

Publishers

Figshare also has publisher-focused pages for data sharing around article submissions. For publishers, repository workflows can help authors share supporting materials, meet data policies, and connect published articles with the files behind them.

Help and guidance

The Figshare help site provides user guides for people working with the platform. That support matters because repository records involve metadata, file management, permissions, versions, licenses, and other details that affect whether research materials remain useful.

Who uses Figshare

Figshare is used by researchers, universities, libraries, research offices, data managers, publishers, funders, students, and teams that need to share or manage research outputs. It is especially useful when work includes datasets, supplementary files, or non-article materials that should be cited and preserved.

Strengths and cautions

Figshare's strength is giving research materials a more structured public home than scattered personal links or attachments. The cautions are practical: metadata quality matters, licenses need careful selection, sensitive data may require restrictions, and sharing a file does not automatically prove the quality of the research behind it.

Why it matters

Figshare matters because modern research is more than final papers. Repositories make data, code, posters, media, and supporting files easier to cite, preserve, inspect, and reuse, which supports open research and more transparent scholarly communication.

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Created

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Updated

November 20, 2025

Expires

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